Verizon launched yesterday the Remo service, a system that lets users connect to their PC from their cell phone in order to retreive information and email. Remo is already available ... Read More

Audiovox has a new cell phone nearing market release: the Audiovox CDM8910, obviously a successor to the CDM8900, but its color display has 260,000 colors instead of the usual 65,000 ... Read More

Apparently, various police departments are advising people to beware of thieves who may use camera cell phones to surreptiously photograph your IDs in line ups at the bank or restaurant, ... Read More

A Malaysian man had the surprise of his life Tuesday when his cell phone exploded while he was taking a nap. The explosion caused burn marks on the mattress and ... Read More

New cell phone bans are enacted throughout North-America on a monthly basis, but some U.S. states, including Wisconsin and Colorado, are looking at going even farther: banning young drivers from ... Read More

In his next week issue, Time magazine reports that travel security agents are taking a closer look at cell phones that conceal a gun. Some of these cell phones, made ... Read More

Newsweek writer David J. Jefferson recounts the horror story he went through when trying to switch from AT&T Wireless to Sprint PCS. "You could make outgoing calls. But incoming calls ... Read More

Bought a Kyocera 7135 smartphone between September and December last year from Verizon Wireless, Alltel or US Cellular? The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission says the battery could burn you ... Read More

Mobilemag.com just posted a review of Nec's recent HDM-525. They bill the Nec 525 as a good bang for the buck and rave about its above average battery life. source

It's becoming an habit: whenever there's a customer satisfaction survey, Verizon scores first. This time, they get the first rank for customer service satisfaction, according to a study by "Vocal ... Read More

It had been announced before but now it goes live: Sprint PCS offers daily comic strips formatted to fit on a cell phone screen. At $1,99 per day though, I ... Read More

According to a market survey released today, 80 percent of respondents feel camera cell phones are "hot" in 2004, along with Plasma televisions and low carbohydrate diets! Humm... considering the ... Read More

Cell phones surpass alarm clocks, TV sets and answering machines as the most hated invention. In a survey conducted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 30% said they "rated ... Read More

HP is going to manufacture a PDA phone and Smartphone.net has some details on that upcoming product. The HP iPAQ h6300 will have three special features: a Bluetooth connection (pretty ... Read More

If you're like me, you love small & tiny phones that slip in your pocket discreetly. So check out my slide show of the 10 latest small & lightweight cell ... Read More

After Verizon and Sprint PCS, Alltel, an important regional cell phone service provider, just launched Touch2Talk, a "push-to-talk" (PTT) walkie-talkie service similar to Nextel's. Push-to-talk will be an important new ... Read More

Last week, Orange, a European wireless service provider, demonstrated "international" push-to-talk between France and the United Kingdom. Later this week, we also learned that their PTT service will include a ... Read More

Mobileburn published this week an in-depth review of the Sony Ericsson T630, which is a souped-up version of the popular T610/T616. The T630 features a TFT display and more camera ... Read More

Here is a cell phone that combines two novelty trends of the year 2004: a camera with a zoom and the possibility to personalize your phone not only with polyphonic ... Read More

A European research organisation has developed a system that sends a short message to local emergency services when it senses a crash. The device, called E-merge, can even determine the ... Read More

Are we going to have to buy life insurance along with a cell phone plan? Maybe, given the continuing saga of the exploding cell phones. Yesterday, the Inquirer reported two ... Read More

The New-York Times (NYT) has a very interesting article on how the railways, especially the Acela Express line between Boston and Washington, are becoming rolling offices. The trip sure takes ... Read More

That should tell you how big cell phones are: according to a study released on Tuesday, ringtone sales last year jumped 40 percent compared to the previous year, to $3.5 ... Read More

"Cell Phone" Movie stirs mistrust among Chinese lovers A new chinese movie about a crisis that starts when a wife finds a message from her husband's lover on the cell phone ... Read More

A company called Wildseed is demonstrating, this week at the Consumer Electronics Show, a cell phone with "intelligent faceplates" called SmartSkin. SmartSkins contain memory (up to 64MB) and, once snapped ... Read More

Orange, a European cell phone network just demonstrated the first Push-to-Talk (PTT) conversation between the UK and France, the "first international offering of its kind", they say. source

I spent a great deal of the holidays overhauling the ringtones selection system. Now, when you select one of this site's free ringtones and proceed to the next step, you ... Read More

Ever wondered why Europeans have the coolest phones and the latest features first? Why is North-America so behind in cell phone technology? Wether you're a conspiracy theorist or not, you ... Read More

1xRTTT and GPRS aren't fast enough. Trying it should convince you. But last fall, AT&T Wireless announced a faster wireless data network based on the EDGE technology. And it seems ... Read More

The February issue of Popular Science has a short piece about a Swedish study involving rats exposed to cell phone radiation. A classic approach, but this time brain damage is ... Read More

Shall we be surprised? T-Mobile claims that Number portability has had less impact than expected, reports The Inquirer. source

What's in the stars for ringtones? Read about how cell phone ringtones will evolve into general themes and real MP3 music. read

Audiovox unveiled today a new camera phone at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The CDM8910 includes a 1.3 megapixel camera with a built-in flash, a speakerphone with two ... Read More

Another proof that PTT (the Push-to-talk, which lets one use cell phones like a walkie-talkie) will be a big trend this year: after Nokia, Motorola and Sanyo, Audiovox jumps in ... Read More

AT&T will sell the Motorola V600 camera phone in February for $300. That clamshel phone has a pretty good set of features, I bet it will be a hit: Bluetooth, ... Read More

It seems like the the "best network" reputation largely attributed to Verizon Wireless is not just a rumor, according to Consumer Reports, which surveyed 12 metro areas. Consumer reports also ... Read More

Available today at Nextel: the newest Blackberry two-way pager and cell phone with a speakerphone and Nextel's usual Direct Connect push-to-talk service. The 7510 has a color display and Blackberry's ... Read More

Bandits get really busy nowadays, like this thief who robbed a bank this week in Philadelphia. Witnesses say he had a cellular phone and appeared to be talking to someone ... Read More

Motorola is introducting quite sophisticated gadgets at this year's Auto show in Detroit, such as "Driver Advocate", a telematics system that recognize when the driver makes a difficult maneuver, such ... Read More

Many big cell phone companies such as Nokia plan to launch an increasing number of Push-to-talk "walkie-talkie" cell phones this year. The New York Times looks at the trend with ... Read More

The increasing number of people dropping their landline to go wireless-only. An FCC rule prohibits pollsters to call someone who would have to pay for the call. And the Number ... Read More